- Title: Understanding Cyber Bullying
- Thesis: What is Cyber bullying and how to prevent it.
- 1. What is the definition of cyber bullying?
- A. Cyber bullying, unlike face-to-face bullying, occurs when a student or group of students targets an individual or individuals at a time, by using a form of online mediums to display aggression or domination of the victims.
- 2. Types of Cyber bullying
- A. Social Media Bullying
- i. Threatening emails or being harass on social media such as Facebook, text messages, twitter, snap chat you name it are types of social media bullying!
- ii. How to stay away from social media bullying
- B. Happy Slapping
- C. Flaming
- i. How to recognize or tell who the Flamers are.
- ii. How to deal with the flaming.
- iii. How to be an upstander of flaming.
- 3. Levels of Cyber Bullying
- A. Level One: Includes insulting remarks, gossiping, spreading rumors online, teasing…
- B. Level Two: Includes threatening physical harm, insulting family, insulting based off of race, religion, and sexual orientation, posting slander on public websites…
- C. Level Three: Includes making repeated threats, harassing you because of biased opinions online, arranging public humiliation, and enforcing total exclusion against someone…
- 4. Activities
- A. Activity #1: Online pledging to stop bullying
- B. Activity #2: Create a school poster on Cyber bullying
- C. Activity #3: Role-play and Discuss different types of Cyber Bullying
- D. Activity #4: Videos on previous bullying victims and Discussion
- 5. Preventing Cyber bullying
- A. Stopping it before it happens
- i. What the parents can do to help prevent it.
- ii. What the tweens\teens can do to help prevent it.
- 6. Steps to Report Cyber bullying at school
- i. What reporting the situation to the school can do to help stop it.
- ii. Steps students and parents can take to document and report Cyber Bullying behavior.